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I’ve seen gluts not followed by shortages, but I’ve never seen a shortage not followed by a glut. - Nassim Taleb Every bubble story follows a similar script: Too much money chases too little reality, causing supply to outstrip demand until the market eventually corrects itself. We’ve seen it in railroads, tulips, dot-com businesses, and now, as many commentators would lead us to believe, in AI. The commentators are right in some ways; the AI economy does have a supply problem.

Welcome to episode four of Forward Deployed. Noah sits down with Chris Papasadero to explore the deep parallels between Special Forces operations, enterprise software deployment, and creative direction—and what all of it means for building AI agents that actually work in the real world.

Welcome to episode three of Forward Deployed. Noah and Lance dive deep into context engineering—the art and science of filling context windows with just the right information for agents to take the next action.